Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, hook-shaped carpal bone of the wrist.
- adjective Hooked at the tip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hooked; entangled.
- In zoology, hooked; uncinate: same as
hamulate . - In botany, curved like a hook; hooked at the tip: said of hairs, spines, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Hooked at the tip.
- noun The
hamate bone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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GRAHAM: Probably the most frequent acute injury we see in golf is when the ground is struck forcibly, there's a small prominence in the palm of your hand called the hamate bone.
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But Norris, who missed several games, feels he rushed back, and the symptoms from the hamate surgery never fully went away until he arrived in the Instructional League.
Finally healthy, Derek Norris takes on the Arizona Fall League Adam Kilgore 2010
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OF Chris Dickerson, on learning after his surgery that several Reds players and coaches have undergone similar hamate procedures.
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OF Chris Dickerson, on learning after his surgery that several Reds players and coaches have undergone similar hamate procedures.
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At the end of spring training, he injured his left hand, which in the offseason had required surgery to remove a hamate bone.
Finally healthy, Derek Norris takes on the Arizona Fall League Adam Kilgore 2010
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Potomac 8, Wilmington 0: Derek Norris made his season debut after missing the early portion of the season with soreness in his wrist, a consequence of offseason hamate surgery.
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Norris had surgery to remove a broken hamate bone in his hand, and he experienced soreness at the end of spring training.
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Espinosa will have the hook of hamate bone removed from his right hand Wednesday in Baltimore at the Curtis National Hand Center.
Danny Espinosa to have hand surgery, out six weeks Adam Kilgore 2010
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* Class A Potomac catcher Derek Norris, widely rated as the best position player prospect in the Nats system, is in extended spring training in Viera, Fla., rehabbing from lingering soreness after hamate bone surgery this offseason.
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Norris had been receiving extensive at-bats in extending spring training in Viera, Fla., after recovering from soreness in his hand and wrist, a lingering complication from hamate bone surgery.
reesetee commented on the word hamate
hook-shaped or hook-like
June 18, 2007